noun:

• student taking (university) entrance exams while still enrolled in school; student who passed their university entrance exams on the first try ➜ 現役

noun:

• natural or man-made feature or object on the earth's surface (trees, hill, river, road, building, etc.); object or structure important in a battle, esp. for concealment

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to advance; to move forward; to put (a clock, watch) forward
• to carry forward (plans, work, etc.); to proceed with; to make progress in; to further; to advance; to hasten; to speed up
• to raise; to elevate; to promote; to develop; to stimulate (e.g. one's appetite)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to tread on thin ice; to go out on a limb; to walk a tightrope; to take risks; to cross a dangerous bridge [literal]

expression / godan ~ぐ verb:

• to sew a fox's skin to the lion's; to graft a bamboo shoot on a tree [literal] - idiom

noun:

• telegony; influence of a previous sire on the offspring of a female with a later sire (discredited theory of heredity)

noun:

• without intermission for many years; with constancy of purpose for many years; in the same old rut for years on end - four character idiom

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to arrive at; to reach
• to sit on; to sit at (e.g. the table) ➜ 席に着く

noun:

• cover (of a book, magazine, etc.); binding

noun / ~する noun:

• appearing on the cover of a magazine

noun:

• small opening in the side of some traditional Japanese clothing (located where the sleeve meets the bodice, below the armpit)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to keep an eye on; to keep a watchful eye on

noun:

• people living in the country; people living inland; Japanese in Japan proper; people living on Honshu

conjunction:

• if one were to speak of ..., then certainly; if it were the case that ..., then certainly; if it were a ..., then certainly; phrase used to indicate the inevitability of what follows it (based on what precedes it) ➜ 言う・言う
• so that means (when used in sentence-initial position)

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to throw; to toss; to cast
• to hit; to strike; to smash; to hammer in; to drive in
• to fire into (e.g. a crowd); to launch (e.g. missiles); to lob (e.g. grenades)
• to wear (sword, etc.); to carry

adjective:

• risky; dangerous; hazardous; perilous; close (e.g. game); narrow (e.g. victory)
• suggestive; bordering on the obscene; risqué; delicate (e.g. question); questionable; shady
• extreme; harsh; cruel - archaism

noun:

• five-line musical notation; Western musical notation based on the five-line staff

expression / godan ~く verb:

• to get used to one's work; to become accustomed to one's position
• to be at home (on the stage)

noun:

• region south of Tokyo on Pacific Ocean side of Japan; eastern sea
• East Sea (controversial name for the Sea of Japan proposed by Korea)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to hit
• to expose
• to apply (e.g. patch); to put on; to put against; to hold on; to hold against
• to allot; to call on someone (e.g. in class)
• to guess (an answer)
• to make a hit (e.g. in a lottery)

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to go uninvited; to call on without an invitation; to barge in on; to gatecrash
• to throng to; to crowd into; to converge upon; to pile in

godan ~す verb:

• to use one thing for several purposes; to use the same thing on multiple occasions
• to work someone hard; to order around; to boss

noun / ~する noun:

• planting a field with the same crop each year; repeated cultivation
• collaborative literary work; story made up by several writers working on it in turn
• series (of novels); cycle (of poems, songs); sequence

noun:

• land-tax system during the Edo period under which the government took 40% of the year's crop and the farmers kept 60% - archaism - four character idiom

expression / ichidan verb:

• to have grown tense (of a situation); to have become critical (and to be on the verge of a major upheaval)

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to pour water (into); to dilute with water
• to hinder; to hamper; to throw cold water on; to put a damper on; to estrange (people)